Improvement in gas apparatus tor railroad cars



J. s. W001). GAS APPARATUS FOR RAILROAD GARS &c.

No. 195,757.. Patejntgd July 26, 18 7 0.

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that contain .JosnPH s; WOOD, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TOHIMSELFAND JOHN J. GARBERRY, or SAME PLACE.

' LettersPatent No. 105,757, dated July 26, 187i).

IMPROVEMENT IN AS APPARATUS FOR RAILROAD CARS, 8(3.

The Schedule referred 'to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame JOSEPH S. Woon, of the city'and county of V is the inlet throughwhich the tube Itis filled Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented with gasoline, which is afterward drawn olf through an ImprovedGas Apparatus for Railroad Cars, of the plug V, leaving the spongesaturated with gasowhich the following is a specification. line.

"motion of, the V "ins a;

' TNis a. mud plug,,through-which the oxide and sed- Ii'ql nt arewithdijawn.'

" From the bottom theJtauk B passes the circa- The nature of myinvention, which is an improrement on my patent of April 5, 1870,No.101,558,

-co'nsist s in the construction and arrangement of the machine so as toadapt it to the illumination of railroad or city horse-cars. The machineis in three parts, the-upper one containing dilute acid, the lower onehaving the iron turnings, and the third being the carbureting-tube.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willnow proceed to describe its construction and operation,-reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing, inwhich- Figure 1 is a generalelevation of a. railroad car, with my apparatus attached.

Figure 2 is a sectiop longitudinally through the car and machine.

Figure 3 is a cross section through the car.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal section through the carbureterr A is therailroad car, hating secured beneath it the tank B, for dilute sulphuricacid.

This tank is made broad and shallow, and has several plates, 0 O,suspended from the lid,-so as to come within aninch of the bottom.

A passage, (1, is also left for air, over the. plates,

and airholes are placed in the lid.

These plates divide the tank up into so many separate cells, E,whichprevent the liquid serging from end to end with the motion of thecar.

Suiiicient opening is madein-each plate, or left beneath it, 'so thatthe liquid may maintain the same level inall thecells- The-tank isfilled through inlet 7). Beneath this, or at a lower level, is thehorizontal vessel G, about two feet in diameter and six feet long.

it has a plug or door, H, at one end, through which ,the perforatedtubular basket K, which contains the a he filings; is inserted; w

' steatiied from rolling about from the by the p rated sheath Msecured{flitting pipe I, which enters the'bottom of the cylins "-jder-G, sothat the dilute acid escapes from it below fthe level of the basket Astop'cock, 'p is placed in this pipe.

It is the: carhui'etiog' tube, which is 'packed with saturated wick orspongefwii p A pipe,- S, passes fr'ouilthe .to'p voi" l'he'c-ylinder Gare 111610)) of the tube R; aii d-thenalong the inside, centrallyterminatingiu a rose/l;

which modifications adapt the neath railroad cars, and for otheranalogous uses and The operation of the machine is in this manner:

The cock 1) being opened, the dilute acid descends the pipe P, and comesin contact with the iron turnings in the basket K, generating hydrogengas, which escapes up the pipe S into the -carbureter 1i, passing out atthe rose T, and backward through ad the saturated sponge, and out at thepipe X to pipes and gas-burners in the railroad car.

The machine itself regulates the quantity of gas made, by means of thecirculating pipe P. As soon astoo much gas is made, the pressure forcesthe liquid up the pipe P into the tank B out of contact with isdecreased, when it again descends. can be shut oiffwhen the machineisnot in operation;

and, also, when the liquid is all in the upper tank, B,

-it may be shut oh and the liquid retained there,

while the basket K is refilled, and the sediment rei moved Thus not onlyis the proper pressure maintained, but the liquid in contact with theiron-turuings is being constantly changed.

I do not claim the arrangement of an aircarbnreter beneath or outside arailroad car, as that was made and used before thcdate of my inventign.

My invention relates to modifications in the apparatus for generatingand carburet-inghydrogen gas,

apparatus for use heplaces.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-- 1. Constructing the cylinder G and basket K of a horizontal tubularform, so that the said basket is inserted and withdrawn from the end ofthe cylinder,

so as to adapt the hydrogen-gas generator to its position beneathrailway cars, as herein described.

2. Thetauk B, with a series of dividing-plates, O, for the'purposeherein described.

'3. The combination and arrangement of the tank B, the horizontalcylinder G, tubular basket K, and circulating pipe I, for the purposeherein described.

4. The arrangement of the horizontal tube R, with inside pipe S,surrounded with saturated packing W, so that the hydrogen gas passes outat the end '1, and passes backward through the packing and out at pipeX, in the manner and for scribed.

. JOSEPH S. WOOD.

Witnesses .Eown. BnowN, Jos. RABY.

the purpose herein dc-

